Top 100 Interrupt Quotes
#1. My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me.
Ann Tyler
#2. Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. Poor lighting, absence of handrails, confusing patterns on the treads, risers that are unusually high or low, treads that are unusually wide or narrow, and landings that interrupt the rhythm of ascent or descent are the principal design faults that lead to accidents.
Bill Bryson
#4. Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.
Michael Symon
#5. Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.
Stewart Dalzell
#6. Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Lewis Gannett
#7. Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.
Franz Beckenbauer
#9. Augustus Waters talked so much that he's interrupt you at his own funeral.
John Green
#12. No soul can withstand the sun's bones of light and reason dims when darkness falls - so we shape barrows in the night for you and your kin." "Forgive my interruption, then," said I. "The dead never interrupt," said the mason, "they but arrive.
Steven Erikson
#13. No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.
Steve Ballmer
#14. When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.
Richie Havens
#15. Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
Seth Godin
#16. He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I ... I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.
Susanna Clarke
#17. There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
#18. Cellaholics are those who interrupt quality time when they are with you, but rather text, call, and email others who are somewhere else.
Jayce O'Neal
#19. He didn't say anything to the contrary or interrupt me in any way, which was nice. (Polite listening skills really are rare, don't you think?)
Matthew Quick
#20. We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems ... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.
John Allen Paulos
#21. A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.
J.D. Greear
#23. Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.
Michael Foley
#24. I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#25. The alcalde tells me that it isn't kind to interrupt. In reply I begin to open my dress, so he can see what God has given me. I smile as an iguana smiles. He looks away.
Aaron Thier
#26. Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.
Mike Huckabee
#27. Change no man's religion, change no man's politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.
L. Ron Hubbard
#28. The worst thing about e-mail is that you can't interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It's frustrating and it's time-consuming. God bless phone calls.
George Carlin
#29. When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
J.D. Salinger
#30. Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect.
Randy Orton
#31. You'll have to read the book, and don't interrupt me. It's distracting enough looking at you. You've already derailed my brain train with your face several times.
Penny Reid
#32. I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie
#33. There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#34. German wasn't good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn't interrupt.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#35. It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#36. Tris: "I was reading."
Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.
Tamora Pierce
#37. I got the memo, Nathan," I interrupt him crossly. "You don't love me. Aren't going to love me. I hear it loud and clear. A fucking cuddle session isn't going to change that.
Alessandra Torre
#38. She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.
Jean Webster
#39. You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.
Margaret Mitchell
#40. Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#41. The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it
John Wooden
#42. When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.
Jerry Seinfeld
#43. It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all.
John Climacus
#44. I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
Jack White
#45. I would never interrupt you," he told her. "I love it when you talk Sweetly to me.
Courtney Milan
#46. Some are so Foolish as to interrupt and anticipate those that speak, instead of hearing and thinking before they answer; which is uncivil as well as silly.
Various
#47. Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.
Masha Gessen
#48. I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.
John Knowles
#49. Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
Mark Twain
#50. Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.
Ilona Andrews
#51. THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her ... I'm falling asleep in order to hear her ... Go on, sister, go on ... My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore ...
Fernando Pessoa
#52. My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.
Tony Robbins
#53. Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.
Jack London
#54. You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.
Robert Breault
#57. I told you when you hired him that - " "When I hired him?" "Don't interrupt. - that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.
Mary Oliver
#59. I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say ... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em.
Brent Weeks
#60. One doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
Brent Weeks
#61. I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#62. Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
Brendan Behan
#63. Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
Elizabeth Lesser
#64. God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.
Henry Blackaby
#65. You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.
Sue Monk Kidd
#66. It was Cinder's voice. "Hello, dearest Aunt Levana," she said, her tone light and taunting. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to make sure I had your full attention. First, allow me to congratulate you. It seems you finally have everything you've always wanted. Now, it's my turn." There
Marissa Meyer
#67. Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment
Sharon Salzberg
#68. Every road has unexpected curves. We can allow them to interrupt our journey, while wishing they weren't there. Or, we can make adjustments, while all along continuing to move ahead. Ultimately, the choice is ours.
Charles F. Glassman
#69. We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but ... we've got to get things moving along ... " We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!
Theresa Wayman
#70. The Archer always keeps an arrow in her quiver for you; interrupt my shot again, and I will give it to you directly.
Kresley Cole
#71. Change the setting, change the mood ... She'd taught him to make himself go outside if he was in, or inside if he was out, to interrupt the plummet with something as simple as making a cup of tea or spending a few minutes working on crossword puzzles.
Jennifer Weiner
#72. Please do not ask me," I interrupt, my voice so wobbly the words barely get out. "There are secrets so dangerous one shouldn't even confess them to the dearest of friends.
Aprilynne Pike
#73. Don't allow people who say it cannot be done interrupt you while you are doing it.
Carlos Wallace
#74. I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions.
Michael McCoy
#75. From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
George Bernard Shaw
#76. A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
Stephen King
#78. If there's one thing that distinguishes the human species, it is a pathological need to stay connected. The fact your people will interrupt sex to answer your communicators is a scandal across the entire Common Confederation.
John Scalzi
#79. She said I was the most sensitive boy she'd ever met, which
I didn't understand because really all I did was not interrupt her.
Stephen Chbosky
#80. You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Wayne Rogers
#82. Eluned had to work very hard not to stare impolitely, for Princess Celestine was reputedly the daughter of a dragon, and thus naturally the most interesting person who could possibly interrupt afternoon tea.
Andrea K. Host
#83. You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock.
Henning Mankell
#84. Kalaj would say, "I've got the eyes of a lynx, the memory of an elephant, the instincts of a wolf ... "
" ... and the brain of a tapir," would interrupt his nemesis, the Algerian.
Andre Aciman
#85. Never interrupt the enemy while he's in the process of making mistake
Ashwin Sanghi
#86. Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.
Clive Thompson
#87. The night doesn't say to itself, 'Here comes a shooting star to interrupt my peace!'
Daniel Odier
#88. Buy yourself some time. Interrupt the 'yes' cycle, using phrases like "I'll get back to you," then consider your options.
Auliq Ice
#89. So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm ...
Troy Ragland
#90. If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.
Tammy Kling
#91. All my life people have assumed I'm stupid because I'm quiet, I never interrupt, and I follow directions. But I'm quiet because saying less is always more.
C.D. Reiss
#92. It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
Lemony Snicket
#93. What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#94. I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'
Sherri Shepherd
#95. In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.
E.B. White
#96. I hate to interrupt such a touching scene but those hellhounds are not going to wait for you two to play kissey face. So, unless you intend to nail a chunk of roast beef to my butt and have me run around as a distraction, I would suggest we prepare for battle. Pg. 113-114
Alexandra Ivy
#97. While commercials interrupt consumers' enjoyment of a TV program, social media allows video to enter the conversation between friends in a non-intrusive way with an opt-in choice.
Jay Samit
#98. One moment, please ... We interrupt our regular program to bring you this special bulletin: It's a nice day outside.
Charles M. Schulz
#99. I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
John Green
#100. Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Mignon McLaughlin
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